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Notes on $n$-point Witten diagrams in AdS${}_2$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-10-23 v2

Abstract

Witten diagrams provide a perturbative framework for calculations in Anti-de-Sitter space, and play an essential role in a variety of holographic computations. In the case of this study in AdS2_2, the one-dimensional boundary allows for a simple setup, in which we obtain perturbative analytic results for correlators with the residue theorem. This elementary method is used to find all scalar nn-point contact Witten diagrams for external operators of conformal dimension Δ=1\Delta=1 and Δ=2\Delta=2, and to determine topological correlators of Yang-Mills in AdS2_2. Another established method is applied to explicitly compute exchange diagrams and give an example of a Polyakov block in d=1d=1. We also check perturbatively a recently proposed multipoint Ward identity with the strong coupling expansion of the six-point function of operators inserted on the 1/2 BPS Wilson line in N\mathcal{N}=4 SYM.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2204.01659,
  title  = {Notes on $n$-point Witten diagrams in AdS${}_2$},
  author = {Gabriel Bliard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01659},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages, 10 figures; v$_2$ has an attached mathematica .nb to evaluate the contact diagrams with arbitrary weights $I_{\Delta_1,...,\Delta_n}$, some notation changed for clarity

R2 v1 2026-06-24T10:37:20.599Z